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Pedagogy and Learning Within Engineering Design Graphics II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel P. Kelly, North Carolina State University; Aaron C. Clark, North Carolina State University; Jeremy V. Ernst, Virginia Tech; Kevin Gregory Sutton, North Carolina State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Design Graphics

Paper ID #15738Flipped Instruction in Engineering Graphics Courses: Current Landscapeand Preliminary Study Results of Instructors’ PerceptionsMr. Daniel P. Kelly, North Carolina State University Daniel P. Kelly is a doctoral student in the Technology Education Program at North Carolina State Uni- versity. Prior to his current position as a Graduate Research Assistant at NC State, Daniel was a middle and high school technology and engineering teacher in Durham and Wake Forest, North Carolina. Daniel has earned a BA in Physics from SUNY Potsdam and an MS in Technology Education from NC State. His thesis STEM Teacher

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Engineering Librarians: Impacting the Past, Present, and Future

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael J White, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

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Engineering Libraries

Yale University, he returned to Pratt to become head of thelibrary’s Applied Science Reference Department. The Pratt was a hybrid library, serving as botha public library for residents of Brooklyn and an academic library for the students and faculty ofthe Pratt Institute, which offered courses in, among other things, engineering, architecture, andlibrary science. Stevens had become a SPEE member in 1908, along with ten other Pratt facultyand staff, probably in anticipation of the 1909 meeting, which was held at Columbia University,the Pratt Institute and the United Engineering Societies Building. Stevens was the firstprofessional librarian to join SPEE.The reaction of Stevens and other SPEE members to the committee’s report was not positive

Conference Session

Proven Strategies in Classroom Engagement Part I: Artifacts for Creative Pedagogy

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel J. Pickel, University of Waterloo; G. Wayne Brodland, University of Waterloo; Rania Al-Hammoud P.Eng., University of Waterloo

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Civil Engineering

detach from a primary tumor and begin the process of metastasis. - See more at: https://www.asee.org/public/person#sthash.G6Dr. Rania Al-Hammoud P.Eng., University of Waterloo Dr. Al-Hammoud is a Faculty lecturer (Graduate Attributes) in the department of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Al-Hammoud has a passion for teaching where she con- tinuously seeks new technologies to involve students in their learning process. She is actively involved in the Ideas Clinic, a major experiential learning initiative at the University of Waterloo. She is also re- sponsible for developing a process and assessing graduate attributes at the department to target areas for improvement in the curriculum

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: Using Technology and/or Technology Tools to Enhance Learning

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rodrigo Cutri P.E., Maua Institute of Techonology; Luiz Roberto Marim, Maua Institute of Technology; Juliana Ribeiro Cordeiro; Hector A. C. Gil, Maua Institute of Technology; Camila Cunha Toledo Guerald, Maua Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

Kahoot overcame expectations when it came to individual reflection and peer-instruction. The fact that the quiz can be played through a cell phone increases students’engagement, since the use of new technological resources motivates students and shortenssome distances between faculty members and students. Also, using electronic devicesenriches the classroom experience due to the pluralization of the learning channels.Considering that Kahoot quizzes present a game format, the natural competition amongstudents makes the classroom a friendly and fun environment. This competitivenessenticement leads to more involvement, and Kahoot clearly motivated students to reflecton the concepts learned. Also, regarding peer-instruction, it was surprising to see

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nikhil Gupta, Florida State University; Matthew J Jensen, Florida Institute of Technology; Chiang Shih, Florida A&M University/Florida State University

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Design in Engineering Education

midterm to their peers, mentors, faculty adviser and the course coordinator forconstructive feedback. The teams are also asked to submit a report on the same. Towards theend of the semester the team has to provide an interim design report, stating the progressmade so far, the final design selected based on the decision matrix, more in details drawingof the concept they are going on to work upon along with discussion of the future work.In the beginning of the spring semester, the team has to provide an oral presentation on thelast semester accomplishments and recent updates with an updated Gantt chart. By this timethey are expected to start ordering parts and materials for their prototype. In the second halfof the semester students are required to

Conference Session

Trends in Accreditation and Assessment

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna M. Riley, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

accreditation philosophy based on assessments of student learning and continuous improvement principles. Today, according to the accumulated evidence in Engineering Change, engineering education in the United States has changed dramatically. Engineering programs and faculty members have reengineered their curricula, teaching methods, professional development practices, program assessment and decision making, and, to some extent, their hiring, promotion, and tenure criteria. Perhaps most important, graduates in 2004 were measurably better prepared than their counterparts of a decade ago in all of the nine learning areas assessed. The greatest increases were in understanding of societal and global

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 9: Evaluating and Measuring Recruiting and Major Selection Strategies

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Melissa A. Dagley, University of Central Florida; Cynthia Y. Young, University of Central Florida; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Andrew Patrick Daire, University of Houston; Christopher L. Parkinson, University of Central Florida; Diandra J. Prescod , Pennsylvania State University ; Christopher T. Belser, University of Central Florida

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

eligible (3.0 GPA) participate in a paidundergraduate research experience. Students are paired with one of the 135 committedCOMPASS faculty mentors to participate in a one semester funded research experience as part ofthe faculty’s research team. Though students continue to identify as members until graduation,the formal portion of the program culminates with the undergraduate research experience.The fourth objective (Research) focuses on determining how Career Readiness and CareerDevelopment assessment results correlate to students selecting and being successful in STEM.This research occurs as a study comparing those students participating in the Career Planning:STEM Explorations course (experimental group) to those already decided on their STEM

Conference Session

Social Responsibility and Social Justice II: From Classroom to Community

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna M. Riley, Virginia Tech; Janice L. Hall, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

charter schools easier. As a result, charterschool boards aren’t composed of parents, teachers or community members, thus eliminatingimportant stakeholder input in the decision-making process and operation of the public charterschools.In November, a special session of the Louisiana legislature convened to create Act 35 whichaltered the criteria upon which state authorities could intervene at the local school district level.The new act redefined how school performance was deemed failing or not. The language statedthat an entire school district would be considered “Academically in Crisis” if 30 or more schoolsin the district had a failing rating and/or if 50% or more of the students in the district wereenrolled in failing schools. This new

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Curriculum Development in Two-Year Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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Two Year College Division

opportunities to explore the world with my hands – doing and makingthings. That opportunity shaped who I am as a person and opened to me many avenues ofendeavor in the STEM fields. Even though there is much more advanced technology availabletoday, today’s students do not seem to have as many chances to tinker with and touch it andexperience what earlier generations where able to in the technology arenas of the day. Pointingand clicking just doesn’t do it! Hopefully this particular pendulum of popular culture, the“maker” culture, embodied by the Internet of Things concept, is swinging back towards an erawhen the abstraction of STEM concepts by a young person’s mind starts with making and doingthings with readily available, inexpensive technology and of

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But I'm a Loner! Expanding capability and creativity by examining effective alliances

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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New Engineering Educators

students about thebenefits of acquiring industrial experience, and its relevance to their future careers asfaculty members, and becoming engineering educators. Encourage them to get intouch with industry, have a connection with someone on the inside, and plan to getinvolved with the practice when they do graduate. This notion of reaching out toindustry at an early stage is foreign to the halls of the engineering academy in theRegion, and likely to meet cultural resistance. Nonetheless, if we are pragmatic anddesire to do a better job in equipping our students with the “tools of the trade” thenwe need to alert our graduate students( the future engineering teachers) to the need ofdeveloping proper and enduring connections with industries in their

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven J. Burian, University of Utah; Douglas Schmucker P.E., University of Utah; Joshua Lenart, University of Utah ; Hessam Tavakoldavani, University of Utah; Pedro Romero, University of Utah; Michael E. Barber, University of Utah

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Civil Engineering

; instead, civil engineering faculty have an additional mandate to help studentsparticipate in the multiple roles in which they will participate as practicing engineers. Globallearning, in this sense, extends beyond a simple definition of the term to denote a preoccupationwith internationalism, but instead connotes a whole host of ideas, which Kevin Hovland argues,better prepares students to apply their technical expertise, and thus open “the door for democraticpractice and social responsibility at the experiential level.”11The project introduced herein is seeking to improve the ability of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering graduates from the University of Utah to have an impact in a global society byapplying their knowledge, skills, and aptitudes

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Understanding the Military Veteran's Human Resource Needs - Transition from Military Service to the Engineering Profession

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony W Dean, Old Dominion University; Connor Schwalm, Old Dominion University; Patrick Sean Heaney, Old Dominion University; Linda Vahala, Old Dominion University; Yuzhong Shen, Old Dominion University; Jennifer Grimsley Michaeli P.E., Old Dominion University

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Diversity

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Military and Veterans Constituent Committee

career Dr. Dean was Director of Operations and Business De- velopment for Clark-Smith Associates, P.C., and served as an Electrician in the US Navy aboard the USS South Carolina and the USS Enterprise.Mr. Connor Schwalm, Old Dominion University Connor Schwalm earned his B.S. in Physics from Old Dominion University in 2014. Currently, he is an Graduate Student in the Engineering Management and System Engineering Program at Old Dominion University working towards his M.E. in Systems Engineering with an expected graduation of August 2016. Currently, he works as a Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Tony Dean on Stern2STEM, a pilot program to increase the student veteran population and retention rates in STEM disciplines

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Strategies Beyond the Classroom to Tackle Gender Issues

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eddie L Jacobs, University of Memphis; Amy L de Jongh Curry, University of Memphis; Russell J. Deaton, University of Memphis; Carmen Astorne-Figari, University of Memphis; Douglas Clark Strohmer, University of Memphis

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

involved in curriculum development and in efforts to form the professional identity of students. He serves as the faculty sponsor for IEEE-HKN honor society and a faculty advisor for IEEE. He provides numerous research experiences for undergraduates, primarily in the fields of optics and imaging which are his major areas of research. Dr. Jacobs is fellow of SPIE and a senior member of IEEE.Dr. Amy L de Jongh Curry, University of Memphis Amy L. de Jongh Curry, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at University of Memphis (UM) with secondary appointment in the Department of Electrical & Com- puter Engineering. She also holds an adjunct position in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

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Assessing Literacies in Engineering Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan McGrade, Indiana Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

such a high stakes venture, sheincreases attention to the importance of WOV skills. The instructor also allows for a questionand answer session, whereby other groups can interrogate their choices and justification.Therefore, by the second week of their college career, these students have created and given theirfirst formal proposal presentation, an early entry into professional engineering practices. In semester II, the faculty member allows for a different experience in professionalcommunication practices: a board-meeting style consensus exercise. In this scenario, studentsdetermine, through the same research process, their individual nominees for texts (one perstudent), present and justify their nomination, listen to other proposals

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 7

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christina S. Morton, University of Michigan; Aileen Huang-Saad, University of Michigan; Julie Libarkin, Michigan State University

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

and environmental conditions as theyrelate to women in male-dominated fields will be examined briefly in this literature review. Taking an individualistic approach, Eccles’ (1994)17 Expectancy-Value Model ofAchievement suggests that academic and occupation related decisions are guided by one’sexpectations for success and the value one places on a particular activity. Research has shownthat women are less inclined to pursue male-dominated careers because they perceive thoseoccupations to be misaligned with their values18–20. Frome, et al. (2007)18 found that, 82% oftheir study participants with male-dominated career aspirations in their senior year of high schoolchose to change their career aspirations to either a gender neutral or female

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Design and Design Chanllenges

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University; Amy Trowbridge, Arizona State University

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First-Year Programs

engineering degree will guarantee me a job when I graduate. ● A faculty member, advisor, teaching assistant or other university affiliated person has encouraged and/or inspired me to study engineering. ● A non-university affiliated mentor has encouraged and/or inspired me to study engineering. ● A mentor has introduced me to people and opportunities in engineering. ● I feel good when I am doing engineering. ● I like to build stuff. ● Engineering skills can be used for the good of society. ● I think engineering is interesting. ● I like to figure out how things work. 6. Select an answer that best describes your opinion about each of the following statements.(For each of the items below, survey

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret Scheiner, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Advanced-Materials Training(RETREAT) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program is designed to address theretention concern. This program exposes students to a number of specific engineeringapplications through a variety of advanced materials research projects. Each student is alsomatched with a faculty member and a graduate student, who mentor the student through thestages of the RETREAT program and how the students’ skills and interests could be well-suitedto a technical position in industry or a graduate degree in engineering. The entrepreneurial twistis included to reinvigorate upper level students and encourage their continuation in a STEMfield. This report provides an outline of how students are recruited and selected – with

Conference Session

Computer Modeling/CAD in Mechanical Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaobin Le P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology; Ali Reza Moazed, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Anthony William Duva P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

scheduled final exam day.3. Two design projectsTwo design projects in the modified MECH625 were an individual minor project and a team-based major project. The minor project focused on developing several necessary skills foraccurate component simulation. The team based major project was developed for students toexplore the baseline of a flawed product and redesign it according to specified designspecifications / constraints.Minor project: the FEA analysis of the member stiffness of the bolted jointsThe skills considered for the essential FEA simulation of components using SolidWorksSimulation were modeling, pre-processing, meshing, application of boundary conditions,convergence verification, and post-processing. At the end of week# 5, exercises for

Conference Session

Emerging Computing and Information Technologies I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afrin Naz, West Virginia University Inst. of Tech.

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Computing & Information Technology

experience in exploring the effective intersection of ABEToutcomes and IL competencies, in the context of incorporation into an existing course. Wepresented this project on the 2013 Annual conference of Frontiers in Education in a paper titled“Best of Two Worlds in a Software Engineering Class, Student Outcomes of AccreditationBoard of Engineering and Technology (ABET) and Information Literacy Standards ofAssociation of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)”. As we contunue with our ABETacrreditation application process (during spring and summer of 2014), along with our capstonecourse, this software engineering class had become an important member in our curriculum toincorporate ABET’s professional skills and to attain the corresponding student

Conference Session

Capstone and Collaborations in Civil Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin G. Sutterer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; John Aidoo, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jeremy R. Chapman, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; James H. Hanson P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kyle Kershaw P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Matthew D. Lovell P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Michelle Marincel Payne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jennifer Mueller PE P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Michael Anthony Robinson P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

mentors among the students, as they feel they have several people to which they are reporting. They are unsure of the extent to which various assignments need to be completed, as this is often dictated by the coach or technical mentor and expectations inevitably differ or are at least described differently among faculty members. The faculty are uncertain whether this is an unavoidable outcome of a very different learning structure for the students, or whether some revision could simplify this for the students. We will continue to explore this to reduce the confusion.In summary, we believe we have developed an effective program for our entire department toteam teach or “team mentor” our capstone design

Conference Session

Works in Progress: Assessment and Research Tools

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tamara Ball, University of California - Santa Cruz; Linnea Kristina Beckett, University of California - Santa Cruz; Michael S. Isaacson, University of California - Santa Cruz

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

assessment that measures ”legitimate peripheral participation” or learning-by-doing, which is the theoretical foundation to an apprenticeship model of learning.Prof. Michael S. Isaacson, University of California - Santa Cruz Michael Isaacson is the Narinder Singh Kapany Professor emeritus, professor of electrical engineering, Director of the Center for Sustainable Energy and Power Systems (CenSEPS) and a member of the Sus- tainable Engineering and Ecological Design Program at UCSC. He is recipient of numerous awards including a Sloan Foundation Faculty Fellowship, the Burton Medal from the Microscopy Society of America, an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, the Rank Prize in Optoelectronics and the

Conference Session

Ethics Instruction in Context: Civil and Construction Engineering and Engineering Technology

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

Knowledge does. Most curriculum leave untouched what ethical situations an engineer might face in the future, and the BOK is a great resource to learn about these circumstances before there are consequences. Not only do I think this is important for civil engineering students in general, but this is a topic that I personally feel I lack a thorough understanding of. The only class that has impressed upon me the important of making strong, personal, moral decisions in the future is my philosophy ethics class, which was not a part of my engineering curriculum.”As this assignment preceded the full case study, I hoped that this student might revise thisopinion that no engineering course asked him to consider ethical issues.By the end

Conference Session

Innovation in Engineering Leadership Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto; Robin Sacks, University of Toronto; Mike Klassen, Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering, University of Toronto; Doug Reeve, University of Toronto

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

communityinvolvement and academic engagement said that connecting with important communitiesprovided them with a sense of belonging which improved their affective state and allowed themto re-engage in their studies. The authors’ findings point out the personal and academic relevanceof community-based involvement for engineering students.Finally Cynthia Finelli, Brian Burt and their respective research teams examined the impact ofengineering students’ curricular and co-curricular experiences on their ethical development 29, 34.Finelli et al. found that 88% of engineering students reported some kind of co-curricular activitywith an average of three activities per student. When they were asked about ethics, most studentsreported encountering ethical dilemmas

Conference Session

Active Learning & Laboratories in Statics, Dynamics, and Mechanics

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John W. Sanders, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Matthew West, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Mechanics

it is timeconsuming and difficult to implement well. A major hurdle in implementing project-basedlearning environments is that they require simultaneous changes in curriculum, instruction, andassessment—all of which are daunting to faculty members. 12 These barriers to implementingPBL become magnified as student enrollment climbs and certain modes of instruction andassessment become unsustainable at larger scales.Starting in 2012, the introductory mechanics sequence at UIUC has been the focus of a concertedredesign effort. 13,14 This redesign was carried out by a group of faculty working together as amutually supportive Community of Practice 15,16 with support from both a college-level program 17and an NSF program 18 . Key goals of the

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division: Engagement, Experiential Learning, and Balance

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado - Boulder; Marissa H. Forbes, University of Colorado - Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado - Boulder

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Environmental Engineering

was awarded NAE’s 2008 Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Curricular Choice and Technical – Non-Technical Balance in Environmental Engineering Degree ProgramsAbstractSelf-determination theory indicates that choice is an important component of motivation andsatisfaction. Further, calls for holistically trained engineers demand that students gain knowledgein humanities and social science topics. This research explored top-ranked environmentalengineering bachelor’s degree programs with regards to: (1) opportunities for students to makechoices in their courses (such as free electives and technical

Conference Session

Social Responsibility and Social Justice I: Pedagogical Perspectives

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

origins ofthis separation, and where and how engineering-SJ connections actually took place (ProgressiveEra, New Deal, Counter-culture movement of 1970s, Counter-neoliberal movement at turn of21st century), and what conditions led to their separation (and seeming incommensurability)throughout the late 20th century. The grant gave us the legitimacy to develop, pilot and makepermanent our course Engineering and Social Justice, in an institutional setting that tends to beconservative and aligned with powerful corporate interests. The official course description statesthat it “offers students the opportunity to explore the relationships between engineering andsocial justice through personal reflection and historical and contemporary case studies

Conference Session

Innovation in Engineering Leadership Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adjo A Amekudzi-Kennedy, Georgia Institute of Technology; Reginald DesRoches, Georgia Institute of Technology; Susan E Burns P.E., Georgia Institute of Technology; Laurence J. Jacobs, Georgia Institute of Technology; Janille A Smith-Colin P.E., Georgia Institute of Technology; Wes Wynens, Georgia Institute of Technology; Lisa Gail Rosenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2002 — the highest honor bestowed upon scientists and engineers in the early stages of their careers. Most recently, he was a recipient of the 2007 ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, the 2015 ASCE Charles Martin Duke Lifeline Earthquake Engineering Award, the Georgia Tech Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor Award (2010), and the Georgia Tech ANAK Award (2008). The ANAK award is the highest honor the undergraduate student body can bestow on a Georgia Tech faculty member. Dr. DesRoches earned his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 1990, a Master of Science in Civil Engineering in 1992, and a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering in 1998 — all from the

Conference Session

UAV and other Team Projects in Aerospace Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael C. Hatfield, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; John Monahan, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Upward Bound; Samuel Vanderwaal; Carl H France; Logan Walker Graves, UAF

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Diversity

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Aerospace

Engineering and Mines (CEM)[4]has enthusiastically begun the process of infusing UAS and aerospace materials into the curriculum,this year initiating an aerospace engineering minor and developing numerous aerospace courses andresearch opportunities for seniors/graduate students. One such course incorporates the application ofUAS SEDP to satisfy operational needs of UAF’s Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft SystemsIntegration (ACUASI)[2] and associated research mission requirements.Aerospace Systems Engineering is a new multidisciplinary course intended to give students practicalexperience in aerospace engineering, specifically by providing new opportunities to learn about UAS.The students learn first-hand about systems acquisition and the SEDP by

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noe Vargas Hernandez, Carnegie Mellon University; Heidi A. Taboada, University of Texas, El Paso; Jose F. Espiritu, University of Texas, El Paso; Connie Gomez, Galveston College; Isaac Andres Azuz, CETYS University

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Diversity

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International

, limitations in language were mitigatedby creating project groups with students from both institutions, from multidisciplinarybackgrounds, and from undergraduate and graduate students, where the groups could leveragethe strengths of their respective group members.Starting Early on ProjectsTraditionally, studying abroad is seen as an option explored by students in the arts andhumanities and oftentimes, studies abroad offices may not be prepared for programs that takeengineering students abroad 4. Therefore, it is imperative to start early on the project, so that anychallenges faced due to the lack of engineering study abroad programs can be met on time.Furthermore, “engineering programs often do not have advisors who are knowledgeable aboutstudy abroad

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aditya Johri, George Mason University; Lori C. Bland, George Mason University; Stephanie Marie Kusano, University of Michigan

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

experience.Students participating in industry experiences are more likely to stay in industry after graduation(72%), while most students participating in undergraduate research are more likely to attendgraduate school (75%). These findings suggest that early on (probably during freshman andsophomore years), most students (about 70%) identify with being the engineer practitioner (thusfollowing an industry career path) or the engineer researcher (thus following the graduate schoolcareer path).The insight provided by engineering education literature is that non-curricular designexperiences, and other non-curricular learning activities, should strive to enhance existingcurricular opportunities, filling in academic gaps that traditional curricular activities do